160 NATURAL HISTORY. 
cry. These birds range over Africa, Asia, and the Pa- 
cific Ocean. In the Hawaian Islands their feathers are 
highly esteemed as ornaments of head-dresses, and com- 
mand a high price. 
263. The Honeysuckers are an aberrant family pecul- 
iar to Australia and 
the neighboring isl- 
ands. The Hoopoes 
are a still more aber- 
rant family. The Eu- 
ropean Hoopoe, Fig. 
f 131, with its crest, 
which it can raise or 
depress at pleasure, 
“> is a very beautiful 
bird. It is-quite 
abundant in France. 
The Creepers are still 
another aberrant 
family, some species 
; pp Ns of which verge to- 
LAV Me? OP ward the Perchers, 
Fig. 131,—European Hoopoe. especially the War- 
bler family, and others toward the next order to be con- 
sidered, the Scansores. The common Creeper of Europe, 
